WO2011028632A1 - Micro-cathéter à lancette - Google Patents

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WO2011028632A1
WO2011028632A1 PCT/US2010/046880 US2010046880W WO2011028632A1 WO 2011028632 A1 WO2011028632 A1 WO 2011028632A1 US 2010046880 W US2010046880 W US 2010046880W WO 2011028632 A1 WO2011028632 A1 WO 2011028632A1
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  • the present invention relates to a micro-catheter having a sharp lancet tip at its distal end, useful, for example, to penetrate hard-calcified tissue and plaque in a vessel.
  • CTO Chronic Total Occlusion
  • the first step is to "cross" or drive a guidewire through or around the CTO. If the occlusion is relatively new, the plaque is likely to be soft and the guidewire will penetrate and cross the plaque. Thereafter, balloon angioplasty and stenting can be performed. However, if the plaque has been lodged in the vessel for several weeks or months, the plaque can become much harder as the occlusion becomes fibrotic and calcified, making it almost impossible for a guidewire to cross. Failure to cross the obstruction is the primary failure mode for CTO recanalization, and often leads to the abortion of the interventional procedure in favor of a surgical bypass procedure instead, with higher costs and complications.
  • subintimal recanalization Known as subintimal recanalization, this procedure can be very useful. There are some advantages to passing around the occlusion, rather than punching directly through it. The subintimal space is more likely to produce a smooth surface for blood flow versus the original lumen, which has remnants of the calcified plaque. The technique has limited acceptance due to technical challenges of the procedure. Among those who perform subintimal recanalization, there is a technical failure rate of up to 30% due to the inability to reenter the distal true lumen at the specific desired location. Therefore, most clinicians will first try to cross the occlusion. If unsuccessful and if they enter the subintimal space, they will try to reenter the true lumen. If they cannot reenter after several minutes, they will abandon the case and schedule the patient for surgery.
  • a variety of guidewires are used to pass the occlusion. If the occlusion is hard, a stiff wire is used to cross. Usually the proximal cap of the occlusion is the harder section, and if crossed, then crossing the rest of the occlusion is relative easy.
  • true lumen reentry device If during percutaneous extraluminal recanalization via the subintimal approach the true lumen cannot be reentered with guidewire manipulation, a true lumen reentry device must be used.
  • PCT patent application PCT/IL2008/000449 describes a reentry balloon catheter that eliminates the needs for rotational orientation and operator direction via imaging guidance. This balloon catheter automatically bends its distal end in the direction of the true lumen. This device eliminates the need for a curved needle, and instead allows direct penetration with or without the support of a straight guidewire or hypotube.
  • the present invention seeks to provide a micro-catheter having sharp lancet tip at its distal end, as is described further in detail hereinbelow.
  • the micro-catheter design provides both high flexibility and high torque-ability, despite its small diameter.
  • the distal-end section is hard and sharp, designed to penetrate hard-calcified tissue and plaque in the vessel.
  • the micro-catheter can be used during CTO (Chronic Total Occlusion) percutaneous transluminal recanalization when conventional guidewires cannot pass the occlusion.
  • CTO Choronic Total Occlusion
  • the proximal fibrous cap of the occlusion can be penetrated with the hard lancet tip of this new micro-catheter, and smaller guidewires can be inserted through the micro-catheter's internal lumen to penetrate the rest of the occlusion. If the plaque is hard along the entire length of the occlusion, the micro-catheter can be used for full CTO penetration, and replaced by a guide- wire afterwards.
  • a balloon catheter preferably with a distal tip-less inverted neck balloon, can be used to stabilize and adjust the micro-catheter lancet tip to the center of the occlusion proximal cap.
  • the balloon catheter With the tip-less balloon catheter, the balloon catheter can be advanced all the way to the CTO plaque cap and then inflated.
  • the micro-catheter is centered and can be advanced directly towards the plaque for puncturing the cap and crossing the CTO.
  • the lancet micro-catheter can be used to re-enter the true lumen, if a subintimal approach is used and the true lumen cannot be reentered with a guidewire alone, the lancet micro-catheter can be used to re-enter the true lumen,.
  • the micro-catheter of the invention is pushed over the guidewire distal to the occlusion, and the lancet tip, which can be manually bent, is used to penetrate the plaque and re-enter the true lumen.
  • the lancet micro-catheter is pushed through the balloon catheter lumen to reach the reentry point, then it exits the balloon in the direction of the true lumen, and penetrates the intimal wall and re-enter the true lumen.
  • the micro-catheter of the invention has good pushability to apply axial penetration force through the lancet tip, has good torque-ability to allow lancet tip rotation for better penetration at sharp plaque approach angles, and has good flexibility to safely navigate the blood vessel curves.
  • it is not simple or obvious to achieve all these features in the same device.
  • the properties of good torque-ability and good flexibility generally contradict one another.
  • the micro-catheter of the invention is made from stainless steel or nitinol or other biocompatible metals for making a hypo-tube.
  • the hypo-tube is laser cut, or mechanically cut, in such profiles that will provide required flexibility, torque-ability and push-ability.
  • standard spiral (e.g., spring shape) cutting does not provide all the above demands; instead it provides only high flexibility with very low torque-ability and push-ability.
  • the distal section of the hypo-tube preferably remains uncut for better strength and superior penetration, and the tip is cut in sharp formation, preferably in lancet tip shape. Other shapes of sharp tips can also be used.
  • metal hypo-tubes provide the flexible section and the hard sharp tip made from same tube and material, reducing the device wall-thickness and avoiding the need of connecting two elements (e.g., a metal needle tip to a flexible plastic tube).
  • the inner and/or external surfaces of the hypo-tube can be partially or fully covered by a low friction jacket, like polyether block amide (e.g., PEBAX) or PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene), to keep the micro-catheter surfaces smooth and without slices, spurs, burrs or notches.
  • a low friction jacket like polyether block amide (e.g., PEBAX) or PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene), to keep the micro-catheter surfaces smooth and without slices, spurs, burrs or notches.
  • Fig. 1 is a simplified illustration of a micro-catheter, constructed and operative in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention
  • Fig. 2 is a simplified illustration of the micro-catheter penetrating a proximal cap of an occlusion with a lancet tip, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention
  • Fig. 3 is a simplified illustration of the micro-catheter in a blood vessel subintimal space, inside a reentry balloon, reentering the true lumen distal to the occlusion, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention
  • Figs. 4A and 4B are simplified illustrations of the micro-catheter lancet tip penetrating plaque in different tip directions;
  • Fig. 5 is a partial sectional simplified illustration of a catheter hypo-tube laser cut profile, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention
  • Fig. 6 is another partial sectional simplified illustration of the catheter hypo-tube laser cut profile, having different pitch and cutting sectors / angles;
  • Fig. 7 is a simplified illustration of a micro-catheter, constructed and operative in accordance with another embodiment of the present invention, including a double needle tip;
  • Fig. 8 is a simplified illustration of micro-catheter, constructed and operative in accordance with yet another embodiment of the present invention, including a side-port needle.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates a micro-catheter 10, constructed and operative in accordance with a non-limiting embodiment of the present invention.
  • the micro-catheter 10 has a lancet tip 11 at a distal end of a distal section 12, and may be constructed with a hollow lumen through its length.
  • the micro-catheter design provides high flexibility, high pushability and high torqueability, despite its small diameter.
  • the distal end section is hard and sharp, designed to penetrate hard and calcified tissues.
  • Fig. 2 The micro-catheter 10 can be used during CTO percutaneous transluminal recanalization when conventional guide-wires cannot pass an occlusion 1.
  • a proximal cap 2 of the occlusion 1 is penetrated with the hard lancet tip 11, and guide-wires are inserted through the micro-catheter hollow lumen to penetrate the rest of the occlusion.
  • the plaque within the diseased blood vessel is hard over the entire length, and micro-catheter 10 can be used for full occlusion penetration, replaced by a guide-wire afterwards.
  • the micro-catheter 10 can be employed together with a balloon catheter 20, which preferably has a distal tip-less inverted neck balloon 21 (as described in PCT patent application PCT/IL2008/000449).
  • the micro-catheter 10 can be inserted in a balloon catheter lumen 22 of balloon catheter 20, thereby placing the lancet tip very close to the occlusion. This arrangement can be used to stabilize and adjust micro-catheter 10 and its lancet tip 11 to the center of the proximal cap 2.
  • the lancet micro-catheter 10 can be used if during percutaneous extraluminal recanalization the true lumen 4 of a vessel 3 cannot be reentered with the guidewire.
  • the micro-catheter 10 is pushed over the guidewire in the subintimal space 5, distal to the occlusion, and the lancet tip 11 is used to penetrate the plaque and re-enter the true lumen.
  • the micro-catheter 10 can be pushed through the balloon catheter lumen 22 to reach the reentry point, protrude from balloon 21 in the direction of the true lumen 4, and re-enter into the true lumen 4 of the vessel 3.
  • a proximal section 13 of micro-catheter 10 can be slightly bent such as by the user, by applying a bending force on the hypo-tube cut section, so as to convert the micro- catheter 10 from a straight configuration to an angled configuration at the junction of section 13 and distal section 12.
  • micro-catheter 10 should have good pushability to apply axial penetration force through lancet tip 11. At the same time, micro-catheter 10 needs to have good torqueability to allow rotating lancet tip 11 for better plaque penetration using different sharp angle approaches (as seen in Figs. 4A and 4B). Yet the micro-catheter 10 also needs to have good flexibility to pass through the blood vessel curvature.
  • the micro-catheter 10 is laser cut or mechanically cut from a hypo-tube made from stainless steel or nitinol or other biocompatible metal in a manner now described that provides the required flexibility, torqueability and pushability.
  • the proximal section 13 of micro-catheter 10 is formed with a plurality of cuts 23 which are not perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the proximal section 13 of micro- catheter 10.
  • the cuts 23 are made partially around the circumference of the proximal section 13 of micro-catheter 10 with uncut portions separating the cuts 23 from one another.
  • cuts 23 subtend a larger angle, called a cut sector angle, than the uncut portions, called an uncut sector angle.
  • the cut sector angle is greater than or equal to 90°, and the uncut portions subtend an angle less than 90°.
  • the cuts 23 can be formed by intermittent cutting of the hypo-tube section 13, while rotating and advancing it.
  • the metal hypo-tube is rotated at a desired rotational speed, while the hypo-tube and the cutting tool are moved axially relative to each other, thus providing the cutting pitch.
  • the cutting tool such as a laser or mechanical cutting tool, cuts the tube intermittently during every full, 360° rotation.
  • the pitch can be 0.2-2.0 mm, and cut sector angles are 245°, and the uncut sectors are 45°.
  • the metal micro-tube is slotted in intervals between 90° and 230°, and unslotted between 5° and 90° for most of its length to achieve high flexibility, torqueability, and pushability.
  • Other angles and pitches can be used to carry out the invention.
  • the sum of the cut sector and uncut sector angles is less than 360°, providing phase shift of the cut and uncut profile every full (360°) rotation. This provides basically the same micro-catheter characteristics in all bending / pushing directions.
  • Micro-catheter 10 can be divided to segments having different characteristics by changing the pitch or cutting sector angles.
  • the distal section 12 of the hypo-tube preferably remains uncut for better strength and superior penetration, and the tip is cut in a sharp formation, preferably in a lancet tip shape.
  • the length of the distal section 12 is preferably short (shorter than proximal section 13), usually less then 10 mm, to allow distal section 12 and lancet tip 11 to easily pass through blood vessel curvatures, over a guidewire or inside balloon catheter 20.
  • the hypo-tube tip is cut to have two parallel sharp edges 14 (Fig. 7).
  • the hypo-tube tip is shaped as a closed sharp tip 15, having a side port 16 that can serve as an exit port for a guidewire (Fig. 8).
  • the proximal end of the hypo-tube section 13 is preferably uncut for better user handling and easy connection of luer connectors. It is noted that using the same material to make the micro-catheter 10 and its sharp tip 11 can reduce the device wall -thickness and avoids having to connect a metal needle tip to a flexible plastic tube.
  • the inner and/or external surfaces of the hypo-tube can be completely or partially covered by a low friction covering or jacket, such as but not limited to PEBAX or PTFE, to keep the surfaces smooth and without slices, spurs, burrs or notches.
  • a low friction covering or jacket such as but not limited to PEBAX or PTFE, to keep the surfaces smooth and without slices, spurs, burrs or notches.

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L'invention porte sur un micro-cathéter (10) comprenant un hypo-tube comprenant une section proximale (13) et une section distale (12) et une pointe acérée (11) formée sur une extrémité distale de la section distale (12), caractérisé en ce que la section proximale (13) du micro-cathéter (10) est formée par une pluralité de découpes (23) qui ne sont pas perpendiculaires à un axe longitudinal de la section proximale (13), les découpes (23) étant réalisées partiellement autour d'une circonférence de la section proximale (13) avec des parties non découpées séparant les découpes (23) l'une de l'autre.
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